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Title page 7
Relation Power and the Pacific Northwest
Date 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09
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Description had sold power to the municipality. Consolidation beyond municipal boundaries depended on development of long-distance transmission facilities to feed local distribution grids. Such transmission grids were developed, and one Southwestern corporation, formed by the merger of 520 utilities, grew to serve 2 million people in an area of 39,000 square miles almost entirely within the State of California. A statewide transmission network was envisioned for Pennsylvania in 1923, when Governor...
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